[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 30 (Wednesday, March 18, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H1241-H1242]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REJECT THE GLOBAL WARMING TREATY

  (Mr. WELDON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, is it fair to let some of our 
fastest growing competitors like China, Mexico and India have an 
advantage? That is what the U.N. Climate Treaty will do. The President 
still vows to sign it. This flawed treaty will force the U.S. to commit 
to emissions reductions that will put Americans on a strict energy 
diet, a more than 30 percent cutback in

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our energy use, while allowing our international competitors to 
increase their emissions. The administration says, a U.N.-run pie-in-
the-sky trading scheme will somehow soften the pain. It sounds like 
rationing to me.
  What about the jobs that will move to more than 130 countries 
overseas that are not committed to these emission reductions? That will 
harm our families, it will destroy our economy, and it will still do 
nothing for the world's environment. It is not global, it is not fair, 
and it will not work. I encourage a rejection of this treaty.

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